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Don't just see the sights—get to know the people. The Philippines may appear to be one of the most Westernized countries in Asia. However, the realities of Filipino life are complex; the façade of the English language does not run deep. Philippines – Culture Smart! gives you the inside...

The day of 9 Thermidor (July 27, 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At midnight, Maximilien Robespierre was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced. By midnight at the close of the day, his world had been turned upside down. He was an outlaw, on the run, and himself wanted for conspiracy against the Republic. He shot himself shortly afterwards. Half-dead, the guillotine finished him off. The Fall of Robespierre provides an hour-by-hour analysis of these twenty-four hours.

Un relato trepidante y delirante de las últimas horas de Robespierre 24 horas en la vida de una de las figuras más emblemáticas de la Revolución Francesa, el gran arquitecto del Terror. El día 9 de Termidor (27 de julio de 1794) supuso un punto de inflexión en la historia de la Revolución...

The Reasonable Adventurer is a graduate capable of creating opportunities for satisfaction. Be that professionally, socially or just in your family life. Graduation can be from any form of school, including the school of hard knocks. Our focus is entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education and learning.

As nationalism and anti-immigration rhetoric surge in France (and elsewhere), The Shortest History of France presents a portrait of a nation whose politics and society have always been shaped by global forces. Grounded in up-to-date historical scholarship that avoids the traps of national exceptionalism, Jones reminds us that it was only after the first millennium of French history that a nation-state began to emerge.